Avoid using Elemental pets in your line-up here, since all three have strong Aquatic attacks. Flying and Beast types will work well, especially ones that have the ability to avoid damage for a round (such as Lift-Off or Burrow) when Geyser and Whirlpool are about to go off for massive damage.

*Note that the bags dropped by each of the Spirit Tamers have different item IDs and loot tables! You can only obtain the Pandaren Water Spirit pet from the bag that Flowing Pandaren Spirit rewards. For a chance at the other pets, defeat the other Tamers:

Comment by Kaliopae

The abundance of Aquatic attacks used makes a Magic pet a good defensive choice here. I managed to take down all three with my Shimmering Wyrmling, using Reflection to counter their Whirlpools.

Comment by sirinad

This is one strategy to defeat this trainer. Of course, there are many ways to defeat each trainer, this is just one way.

Pets:1) Half the time will begin with a critter, no particularly important abilities.2) Half the time will begin with a water pet. Has several multi-turn attacks. Has an extremely high speed.3) Will always end with an elemental that use several multi-turn water attacks.

Team makeup to counter this: A Fox Kit or a Fox with similar abilities, a pet with Flying attacks, and a pet with Water attacks. As the 2nd and 3rd enemy pet uses several hard-hitting multi-turn abilities, pets that can do large reductions in damage or have complete immunities (such as Lift-Off and Burrowing abilities) can be particularly helpful to dodge these multi-turn attacks. Do not use stuns on the first or second pets the enemy uses as this will cause them to simply swap it, messing up your counters.

How to use this:1) Pull the trainer until he begins with the critter. If he begins with the water pet, forfeit and try again. Use Dazzling Dance to become faster than the enemy, then kill it using Bite. Either 2nd ability on your Fox Kit will be fine, but Furious Howl is recommended as it can be used to basically one-shot the water pet.

2) Do whatever damage to the water pet that you can using your beast pet. The fish is extremely fast, and your next pet still may not be faster than it even with Dazzling Dance; if Dazzling Dance does give you the speed advantage using your flying pet, then try to re-apply it before your Fox Kit dies. If you know your Fox Kit is going to die on a given turn, try to use Furious Howl on the fish. However, the Fox Kit will be slower, so timing this can be difficult. When the Fox Kit dies, bring out your pet with Flying attacks and use it to kill the fish. Note that if you managed to apply Furious Howl, a hard-hitting Flying attack like Lift-Off will likely be able to one-shot the fish, which trivializes the rest of the fight.

3) The elemental enemy pet will always be last. Do whatever damage you can with the Flying pet. If you managed to one-shot the fish, there’s a reasonable chance that your Flying pet will kill the enemy’s Elemental pet. If not, use your pet with water attacks to finish it off. The enemy pet will use two hard-hitting multi-turn attacks. Interestingly, the order he casts them in will tend to cause them to trigger on the same turn. If possible, use an ability to become immune to damage on the turn these are going to land. One example of this is that all Civets are water pets with Dive, which can be used to avoid the turn that these attacks trigger on.

Comment by Shenjairo

The first time a Shrouded Cetacean swims by while you're battling this guy = scary!

Comment by Lyricsa

Forfeited until he opened with Tiptoe (critter). Used Cat until it died, Marley had 216 hp left when Cat gave up. Effervescent Glowfly finished off Marley and Pandaren Water Spirit, finished with about 400hp. Dancing Water Strider was never used.

If this setup is as easy tomorrow, this might be a good Tamer to level pets on!

Comment by Flameseeker

This tamer is a breeze if you player your cards right with a Nether Faerie Dragon. Life exchange is borderline OP when you use it on the 2nd and 3rd pet. My 25 rare was able to solo this team.

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Comment by NotNert

I was able to make this a one unit fight by using a Blighthawk lvl 25 rare quality 1546 305 244Slicing wind first abilityGhostly bight second abilityLift off as the thirdI started the fish and was able to work around his dive by using lift off. Because it was strong it almost killed him. Then I killed in the next two turn using slicing wind.I was able to kill the strider by using ghostly bite then slicing wind twice finally finishing with lift off.I finally killed the spirit by using lift off to avoid his two after x turns abilities. Then used slicing wind to finish him off.Hope this helps and happy hunting!(I would recommend Blighthawk to any pet battler, a very valuable asset to a team)

Comment by Kitaen

hi wowhead users,simply yet effective guide on farming all legendary spirits with only 2 pets! as a result you can level a 3rd pet on any trainer which gives insane amounts of XP

you will kill any legedary trainer first try unless you have an insane amount of back luck!

AIR: (hardcounter vs all 3: dragons)any dragon with tail sweep will do, healing flame is nice aswell, use 2 of them (e.g. Onyxian Whelpling)if you don't have a second dragon pet, don't worry, your dragon will almost kill 3 guys solo; any 2nd pet will do that is not aquaticchose your 3rd pet as desired (leveling pet or w/e)

WATER: (hardcounter vs all 3: magic)i strongly suggest the Disgusting Oozeling since he can solo all 3 pets without dying using absorb/acidic goo/corrosionif you want backup, chose another magic pet or any decent flying pet such as Luyu Mothchose your 3rd pet as desired (leveling pet or w/e)

EARTH: (the is no real hardcounter sadly, but a fast critter will work wonders)get a critter that is faster than the earth spirit such as a Elfin Rabbit that can make use of strong defensiv cooldowns like dodge and burrowthe second pet is more tricky, since you need to kill 2 guys fast. i've done a lot of testing - long story short - Fluxfire Feline is the way to gochose your 3rd pet as desired (leveling pet or w/e)

FIRE: (again no real hardcounter ;( )depends on that the NPC starts with (you might restart the fight if its the wrong pet) use your fast critter pet such as a Elfin Rabbit to kill the fire spirit and dps down the dragon as far as you canthen go on with a dragon pet yourself like Onyxian Whelpling once you have killed it, the flying pet is no match.

Comment by sirinad

For leveling pets, this trainer can be 2-manned if done correctly, which results in a pretty large amount of experience.

Start with whatever pet you're leveling (note that since 2 of the enemy pets use an ability that hits back-line pets, your pet can't be too low level or it will die, especially elementals).

Pet 1: Jade Owl. Technically any flying pet will work, but every ability in this fight is aquatic, so the aquatic damage reduction of the Jade Owl helps a lot; Whirlpools won't crush you anymore. Otherwise, any other pet with flying abilities will still probably work. Pull until the trainer starts with the fish, kill it with flying abilities.

Pet 2: Any of the crocolisks from the Shattrah fishing dailies (such as Chuck). Use Rip and Blood in the Water; for the 2nd set of abilities, either will work, but I'd probably recommend water jet. You need the croc to take out the 2nd 2 pets. Jade Owl will be able to put some damage into critter, but it will die partway through. Use Rip in particular to do a lot of damage to the critter since it's Beast damage vs. Critter. When the Water elemental comes out, use Rip on it to get it Bleeding them Blood in the Water; since the enemy is bleeding, it will always hit for massive damage. After that, the goal is just to finish it off before the multi-turn abilities land. In a pinch, you might be able to try and keep your flying pet alive and either pull it out and sacrifice it to the multi-turn abilities landing, or have it use Lift-Off to avoid the turn they land.

EDIT: You may actually want to take Surge over Water Jet. Due to the croc being slower, if you use it less than 4 times before killing a mob, then Surge ends up being stronger. Pending how far the Owl gets against the critter, it's unlikely you'll use Surge 4 times period.

Comment by Manishtusu

So there I was, experimenting with my anubisath's reflection capacity. I wondered, can timed abilities be reflected in the last round? The answer was ABSOLUTE DEVASTATION. There is nothing quite like reflecting all three abilities of the water spirit at the *same time*. All of which are strong versus elementals. :-D

Comment by Danyi

The key to this fight is timing Reflection. It didn't matter one bit my Anubisath Idol was lvl 18 and missing a lot, the key was my team didn't get crushing blows against them.

Open with your Oily Slimeling and pull till you get the Aquatic, which will be most of the times in my experience.

Dot him up with Corrosion, and swap him out! He will toss his whirlpool thing, and that is when Reflection shines. The fish will dive under, and his emerge and whirlpool will both be reflected. Swap your Oily back in, Absorb, refresh your dots again, and take him down. If he tosses another Whirlpool, dodge that too with Reflection. Beware you swap in time, when the whirlpool is on 2 rounds, cause you skip a round on the swap.

When he is dead, the critter takes a bit of time, he heals up, try to reflect his Pump, but if you can't, you can keep yourself alive with Absorb for the time being. If Reflection is on cooldown, now is the time to toss in the Minfernal, if you can time it right, dodge the Pump in the air with Meteor Strike, and by that time, Reflection is up and ready. Keep doing this, but make sure when the Critter is almost dead, you have Reflection off cooldown to counter the triple from the Elemental. His Whirlpool, his Geyser and his Wave will go off at the same time. Toss them right back at him, doesn't even matter if they miss (2 of the 3 did on mine, Idol was low level), the elemental can't heal!

Because I never left my Anubisath Idol in for long, he never got punched a lot and stayed high health, also thanks to his passive heals on hits.

The Oily Slimeling was the only one that died during this fight, and only cause I kept him in on purpose to save my Minfernal from dying, so he took one big blow from the elemental I could not counter when he tossed his Geyser and Whirlpool to hit 2 rounds apart. The Elemental was already so low, the other two could finish the job easily. Stupidly I forgot my Safari Hat on this fight, but my Idol got 1834 xp and reached lvl 21, and the Minfernal got 1532 xp and is now 23.

If the Anubisath Idol is this powerful at lvl 18, imagine him at 25.

Comment by Filthymind

As this has happened two days in a row now, I have to share:.I beat all of Flowing Pandaren Spirit pets with only myImperial Eagle Chick

Comment by Korbu

A Lvl 25 Pterrordax Hatchling is easily able to solo the entire enemy team. Just make sure you time Lift-Off with the delayed big-hitter abilities, and this fight becomes a cake walk. Slicing Wind, Ancient Blessing and Lift-Off were the abilities i used on my Pterrordax Hatchling.

Comment by sirinad

You may be interested in 2-petting this trainer to level a third pet. This is one of the easiest Pandaria trainers to do this with, but their is one caviat; your low level pet will usually get hit by several Tidal Waves for about 100 Aquatic damage each. Thus, an extremely low level pet will probably die. Otherwise, it's easy.

You want to pull until the enemy starts with the Aquatic fish. Forfeit and pull again if he does not. Note that in this strategy, I'll be assuming use of the Cenarion Hatchling, but as this is a pet store pet, I'm sure many people will not have it; I use it only as an example. Basically any flying pet with Lift-Off should work, and it should be pretty obvious how to apply it to your pet. If possible, use a Flying pet that is faster than the enemy fish while above 50% health; the fish is extremely fast, so a slow Flyer will surprisingly be slower even with their speed buff. Once again though, if you use a slower pet, you can still win fine, but the timing of the fight will not work as well.

Pet 1) Start with your low level pet, and start against the enemy's fish.Turn 1) Have your low level pet attack with anything. Enemy pet will cast Whirlpool.Turn 2) Swap to your Flyer. Enemy will Dive.Turn 3) Lift-off this turn. If your Flyer is faster, it will avoid the hit from Dive that comes this turn. Regardless of if you're slower or faster, you'll avoid the Whirlpool hit.Turn 4) Use Quill (or if you're not using Cenarion Hatchling, some type of Flying attack). Enemy will charge pump this turn.Turn 5) Enemy casts Whirlpool. If you get to this point, the fight will end up lasting a lot longer. You'll still win, but it leads to changes to how the second pet works.Turns 5+) Attack the enemy to death. If it takes much longer than this to kill the enemy, unless your Lift-off missed, you're doing something wrong.

Pet 2) The enemy brings out his Critter. Now, oddly, this is where the fight strategy can diverge a little bit, which is odd because the 3rd pet will always go the same. If Whirlpool is out still from the first pet, you need to keep your Flyer out until it lands; and since it roots, you won't be able to swap for 2 additional turns after that unless your Flyer dies.

The Critter is unique for a Pandaria-level trainer in that he doesn't follow a predictable pattern of attack. He can either do a relatively high-damage single-target attack (it's "relatively" high, but not particularly dangerous), an ability that hits all three of your pets, or heal on a cooldown. He seems to get into a pattern of doing either the single-target attack or the aoe several times in a row, but which one he does is completely random as far as I can tell. For as long as your Flyer is out, use Rush (or just some attack if you're not using the Cenarion Hatchling). In general, letting your Flyer die if possible is the best option, but you don't want him chipping away at your other pets with Tidal Wave. If he's casting this and Whirlpool isn't out from the first pet (you don't want your second pet taking this damage; use your Flyer as the sacrifice), swap to your next pet; or bring it out if the Flyer dies.

Your second pet should be a croc from the Shattrah fishing daily; Chuck's Bucket is one example, but all 4 crocs are the same. Note that at this point, the enemy's attacks will be relatively random based on what was said above, so you can't really react to them. Exactly how much of this pattern you need to do to defeat the enemy depends on how much damage your Flyer did to the enemy.Turn 1) Rip the Critter. This will end up being a good bit of damage since it's Beast damage on a Critter.Turn 2) Use Blood in the Water unless a Surge will finish off the critter.Turn 3+) Surge the enemy to death. Usually one Surge is all you'll need, and sometimes he'll be dead before you even need to Surge.

Pet 3) The enemy brings out his elemental. Exactly the order you do things in will depend on the cooldown on Blood in the Water, which depends on whether it or a Surge killed the Critter, but it doesn't change the overall concept.Turn 1) Rip the enemy. The enemy will cast Geyser, which hits in 3 turns.Turn 2) Use Blood in the Water if available; if not, use Surge. The enemy will cast Whirlpool, which hits the same turn as Whilrpool.Turn 3) Use Blood in the Water if available; if not, use Surge. The enemy will Tidal Wave.Turn 4) Use Blood in the Water if available; if not, use Surge (note by this turn Blood in the Water WILL be have been off cooldown one of these turns). The enemy will Tidal Wave. Unless Blood in the Water missed, the enemy will be dead by this point. Whilrpool/Geyser hit this turn and will kill your Croc.NOTE: This is a very rare circumstance, but if it's clear that you won't kill the Elemental on Turn 4 due to a missed Blood in the Water and your Flyer is still alive, swap in the Flyer to take the hits from Geyser/Whirlpool instead of the croc.

Note that this is a rather drawn out set of possibilities, but in practice the fight turns out pretty consistent. It's very repeatable and has a very high margin for error; unlike many fights, you can still 2-pet this fight in a fairly repeatable way even with a large amount of bad RNG in terms of misses.

Comment by byfaraqt04

After trying out a few different strategies mentioned here and elsewhere, I was still struggling with finding a good combination of 2 pets that could beat this trainer so I could level a 3rd. After a bit of frustration, I've found a pretty good combo that works for me.

Level 25 Guardian Cub (any good flyer will probably work here if they can nuke the fish) / Level 25 Oily Slimeling (Disgusting Oozling or any pet with the same abilities work here) / and a leveling pet that can dodge/avoid a round of attacks such as Anubisath Idol, flyers with Lift Off, etc.

Something to note, using a pet that is very low level here might not work out as 2 of this trainer's pets use a backline damaging ability, and they use it A LOT. I usually quickly level a pet to level 10 on the Dragonbone Hatchlings in Dragonblight before trying to level at spirit tamers.

1. I send the Guardian Cub in after Marley (the fish) and Reckless Strike until Marley is dead. Usually my Cub will last one round against Tiptoe and I can get one Reckless Strike in, but sometimes he dies before Marley is dead if there is an unlucky set of crits. That's fine.

2. After the Cub is dead, I send in the Slimeling. Absorb/Corrosion/Acidic Goo are the abilities that it should use. Start with Acidic Goo, the Corrosion, then Absorb. Repeat until Tiptoe is dead.

3. When the elemental comes out, it will always cast 2 abilities that do no up-front damage (big-hitting abilities that are delayed for 2-3 rounds). I use Acidic Goo, then Corrosion. I then send in my leveler. Any leveling pet that can avoid an entire round of abilities works the best here (such as Anubisath Idol with Deflection, dragons or flyers with Lift Off, critters with a dodge ability, etc). Immediately cast the avoidance ability. Once the two big hitting abilities miss, switch back to the Slimeling. Then just continue with the Acidic Goo/Corrosion/Absorb rotation until the elemental is dead. This works out well because it saves the Slimeling from taking 2 big hits, and gets your leveling pet xp without taking any damage other than some backline damage from the wave ability.

I've never lost using this tactic, though it does get trickier if you decide to level a pet that lacks an avoidance ability. I prefer to use a different spirit trainer to level those type of pets, and to level elementals, since they take a lot of backline damage from the wave ability.

Since there are a fair amount of popular pets that have a good avoidance ability, I thought it would be worth sharing this :)

Comment by Dayis

Had good luck(One shotted) him, he's much easier than the earth spirit. Or maybe it's my comp.

Comment by Res21

First off, I'm going to say this now, this pet isn't very good for leveling other pets due to their wave often killing off your back row.

I have, however, managed to solo it with a Magic Lamp.

To do this, use the abilities Arcane BlastSear MagicWish

Enter the fight, and start off by casting an Arcane Blast. They'll dive next turn. When they dive, use Sear Magic so that you can purge off the Whirlpool. The Water Spirit likes to use a lot of multiple turn nukes, use this against them. After they dive, cast Wish to restore your health back, Wish can be casted whenever you'd like, but try not to die, you need to use it a bit early. I found somewhere around 700 health to be comfortable. Just go through this rotation for each pet. The actual spirit is faceroll. They rely too much on geyser and whirlpool. You probably don't need to wish as long as you dispel their multi-turn abilities.

I developed a method to solo it, and have your back row hopefully survive!

You need one resilient pet to kill Marley, if you actually have the Magic Lamp, he'll do, use him and kill Marley.

Swap to a high-damage beast pet (I prefer Kun-Lai Runt or some Spider) and burn down the water strider. After he's dead, swap to your back row and attack once before swapping over to your Magic Lamp (if you have it) and searing off both of his trap things. Swap back to your high-damage pet and burn him down as fast as possible. I did this with a level 23 elemental in my back row, he just barely survived. I still don't think this is a very good pet for leveling, but he can work.

Comment by Delaios

My level 25 rare Imperial Eagle Chick soloes this trainer without dropping below 50% health if Tiptoe decides to use Tidal Wave. Because of flying pets gaining extra speed when above 50% health, you can use Lift Off to completely dodge the multi-turn attacks from the Marley and the Pandaren Water Spirit. They spend a good amount of turns casting these, with the other turns spent on the low damaging Tidal Wave.

Comment by zinseng

In my experience, Marley was always the opener here. Used a 23 common Shrine Fly, rare 25 Kun-Lai Runt to counter the critter, and my rare 25 Water Waveling for the spirit.

Just wanted to stop by since I didn't see it mentioned yet, there's a close stable master available for pet revival at 55,67, north end of Soggy's Gamble - directly across the path from the flight master.

Sidenote: People kept mentioning the Oozeling so I tried it a few times, it did squat for me personally.. mine isn't rare though so not sure if it ramps up that much.

Comment by mistah

If you have the Spirit of Competition Level it to 25. It was one of my first 25 pets and has done me very well.

I was able to take all 3 of these pets down with only the Spirit of Competition and he still had over 200hp left.

Comment by Mishymish

There is hope.

Being my first try, I was expecting death...

lvl 25 Emerald Proto-Whelp died after a few turns and I sadly mistimed my Proto-Strike ability (twice /facepalm).

lvl19 Oily Slimeling did the business. Finished off Marley and Tiptoe. I was like 'seriously?' And then I became ever so impressed by the little darling. He bought it on the elemental. Have now decided to level him up to 25 so that he may continue his victorious virtual carnage.

lvl 25 Elfin Rabbit I was literally expecting the elemental to kill it in two hits. But as it turns out, bunny vs elemental, not too shabby on the dodging and damage. Plus it helps that the elemental's damage is reduced on critters.

Me - 1Flowing Pandaren Spirit - 0

/Cheer

Comment by Crimsonshade

Anubisath Idol soloed the first two (start with sandstorm against marley, he then conveniently lines up both his dive and the air move for you to reflect) crush as the other move. The critter pet just try to take a guess when he's going to heal so you don't blow reflect.For the spirit himself the Idol got him down to 40% and then I had a crab finish him off, emperor or spirebound crab w/e should be fine.

3rd slot for a leveling pet. (Note - He brought my exp up a level and a half from a lvl 23, it's a better fight to finish off leveling a high level dude rather than a low level as all the backline moves might kill a lowbie during the battle.)

Comment by Macazzar

Although the Anubisath idol did the job I found the most consistant team for 2 pet levelling was a :-

Put the levelling pet in first and as mentioned by others it better be a high lvl 20+ otherwise it will die from backline damage. I use 23 as that usually tops them off to Level 25Swap to Flyer and use Lift off to avoid whirlpool - you usually have to soak a dive then a couple of slicing winds and Marley is dead. Get in as much damage on Tiptoe as possible until death. Swap in the oozeling and finish him off - use Absorb to get some healing as you have to soak Geyser and Whirlpool on the elemental and if he synchronizes them it's a big hit. I usually finish with no less than 25% health on the oozeling

Comment by hootstwo

Gilnean Raven destroys the fish and most of the health of pet number 2. Oily Slimeling bats clean up and you choose your leveling pet.

Comment by b1ggerbear

Just killed this master after various rotations of rare pets, and the one that worked this time around was the effervescent glowfly (level 25), the alpine foxling (25), and the silky moth (23). The glowfly stayed alive handily against Marley, and was smacked down by Tiptoe, who was promptly snacked on by the alpine foxling. The foxling didn't do so well against the water spirit, but the silky moth was able to take it out with little trouble and went to 25 as well!

Comment by Nabril

If you don't have a lot of super rare, hard to get pets, an easy victory can still be had.

Shrine Fly (This will easily decimate the first and will last a while into the second)

Panther Cub (Again, mops the floor with that healing critter with a couple of hits)

Choose your third pet (I have fun here- since the Panther Cub does so much damage to the third pet before finally dying, if you've done it right, I use Tranquil Mechanical Yeti because, even though mechanical is weak against elemental, the Ion Cannon makes for a cool finishing move)

You'd have awesome luck picking a pet more suited to fighting an elemental, but the first two pets do so well, that you're given some room to have fun.

Comment by elizaday418

beat with oily slimeling and brilliant kaliri. third pet was only needed to have a living pet at the end.

Comment by crimminal

Solo'd all 3 with level 25 Anubisath Idol. Per Crimsonshade's advice, start the fight against Marley with Sandstorm, then Crush saving Deflection for both his Dive and Air attack, which both conveniently happen on the same turn. Must admit I got lucky on the 2 remaining pets as they missed on a couple of key attacks but I will take it. ;)

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Comment by robertg2001

Best combo for this I have used isPet 1: pet you want to levelPet 2: Anubisath Idol /w demolish, sandstorm and deflectionPet 3: I use a Emerald Proto-Whelp in case the Idol dies.

Get one attack with the pet you want to level then swap to Idol. Use deflection to avoid the high damage attacks like Whirlpool.

Comment by nats88

amber moth, oily slimeling, both rare both 25. easy fight. just use moth until dead and continue on with oily. got him low then just spammed absorb.

Comment by watermen

I did it with Luyu Moth, Silkbead Snail and a pet that I want to level.

Actually, my silkbead snail was only level 23.

Luyu Moth solo'ed that first 2 pets Marley and Tiptoe. Then Luyu Moth was able to deal 50% damage to the last elemental pet. I used Silkbead Snail to finish him off.

Comment by edensessentials

I got him first try with these pets, but I think the dragonkin may not have been the best match for his first pet.spirit of competition - breath, ancient blessing, liftoffarcane eye - psychic blast, drain power, mana surgeelfin rabbit- flurry, dodge, burrow

Your leveling pokemon must have some health to it. I recommend at least 1000 (more for elementals) to deal with the repeated spams of tidal wave. This trainer is not for leveling anything lower than 15 (and even that may bug you; I recommend 20 or higher).

Start with your Crow and blast his giant horrible inflated fishy thing with an Alpha Strike.Marley, the fishy thing, proceeds to put out a whirlpool.Switch to your Tickbird and Fly. When you switch, Marley will pump up. Your successful Fly avoids both the big pump and the whirlpool.Thrash Marley Dead (takes 1-2 turns, if 2 you will be dealing with another whirlpool, but that's okay).Switch to Crow. Crow will be taking the second whirlpool, but he outspeeds the disgusting water walker bug even without his racial (which is why you take the speed breed).Alpha Strike until the bug dies. You may also hit him with a Call Darkness and a Nocturnal Strike, but then it might be dark when the Spirit itself comes out so use caution here.When the bug is dead, and the Spirit comes out, switch in your lowbie. At this point the Spirit will only be using its delayed hits, so your low-level will not be touched.Switch back to Tickbird. Thrash until you see that both delays will hit next round. Then Fly. You will avoid both attacks. Proceed to Thrash the Spirit dead.

Comment by HikaruTalnivarr

I just thought I'd add something I happened to stumble across while lvling the new 5.4-pets:Chi-chi (won from the Celestial Tournament) absolutely destroys this trainer!

With the first pet, Marley, simply use alpha strike twice, go ethereal and finish it off with another alpha strike.

The second pet likewise, simply use alpha strike, it will also be dead in 3 turns.

Lastly, the elemental, is the only one worth using Wild Magic on. You also can opt for Tranquility, but you might get in trouble if you miss a single attack on the elemental. First Wild Magic, then 2 alpha strikes, untill all the time-bombs are about to go off, ethereal, continue with AS. The 2nd time the abilities won't line up, but no worries: avoid the 2nd whirlpool with ethereal, and with one more AS after that the elemental should be dead. Geyser won't be activated a 2nd time, as long as you put Wild Magic.

Comment by Beltane

Using a Forest Moth with Alpha Strike, Cocoon Strike and Moth Dust I have been able to defeat all three enemy pets without losing my Moth, or even needing to swap. Just use moth dust on cooldown and alpha strike otherwise, using cocoon strike to block any of the extremely easy to block hard hitting attacks the enemy team possesses.

Comment by darkrob65

Used 3 lvl 25 moths lead with dust and used Cocoon Strike after he cast whirlpool and easily defeated.

Hope this helps someone!

Comment by smetia

You can almost solo the trainer with a moth a gilnean raven and leveling pet a minimum lvl of 15 .

First you come with Garde Moth ,use Moth balls and alpha strike keep cocoon strike when whirpool will proc ,when the second aquatic comes the same thing you should solo those two and hit once the elemental.

Use call of darkness and nocturnal strike (maybe blizz will think about sorting the bug and nocturnal won't miss) elemental should have like under 100 life bring the pet u want to lvl and smack the elemental.

Comment by larrieuxa

This is the easiest high level pet battle for leveling pets, in my opinion. The leveling pet can be fairly low level too, it just needs to survive a few background aoe attacks.

Start out the fight with whatever pet you want to level. Do whatever attack you feel like. It won't take any damage.Switch to a Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling on the second round.Cast Lift-off. Your pet will miss the water pool explosion while its in the air.Cast Peck to finish off the fish.Use Peck and Slicing Wind to finish off the water strider. Lift Off when its available.Keep doing the same on the elemental.If your gryphon dies, bring in the third pet to finish it off. I use a Dancing Water Skimmer.

Comment by Uroon

Not accessible by land mounts - so lowbies will need a lift on a flying mount / summon / intervene etc. to get up there.

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Comment by DesDestro

Personally I've found the Sandy Petrel (or any flying pet with the cyclone and lift off abilities) to be a fantastic first pet to toss in.

I can usually avoid all damage on the first fight by starting with cyclone - the enemy will cast whirlpool; I'll cast whatever regular hit ability I have (slicing wind or whatever) and the enemy will cast dive; I cast lift off in time to avoid both the enemy dive hit and the whirlpool, meanwhile cyclone is smacking up their back line a bit - usually the enemy's pet will die with one more slicing wind as they cast another whirlpool, if you miss or something one more slicing wind should finish them off. Once tiptoe comes out, however, sandy petrel doesn't become as OP since tiptoe's tidal wave thingie will wash away your cyclone - I just keep smacking him up as much as possible until the petrel dies.

The second pet I really like is the Jade Owl, it's a magic pet with flying abilities and is totally OP for this fight. Lift off makes it easy to avoid the water elemental's geyser and whirlpool abilities, and I usually use adrenaline rush as well to make up for its' lack of speed. But what I usually do if I'm trying to carry a pet (it needs to be reasonably leveled and such so as not to die from the aoe tidal waves of tiptoe and the water elemental) But the turn the water elemental comes out I'll bring out my pet I'm trying to level, get my hit in and then switch on back to my jade owl to finish it off. The elemental will always cast its' geyser and whirlpool abilities first which means your leveling pet doesn't take any damage as long as you switch it out of there before they hit - since Jade Owls are magic they take decreased damage from aquatic and can easily survive the hits.

Comment by SirRoivas

Here's my strategy for this guy, in case anyone might find it helpful:

Pet 1: Anything with Lift-off, Adrenaline Rush, and a good Flying attack. Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling, Dragonbone Hatchling, Sea Gull, Jade Owl, you have a lot of options. Go for Power instead of Speed if possible.

Pet 2: I find that Minfernal works great here. If, for obvious reasons, you don't have one, Netherspace Abyssal, a Wyrmling, or Jade Owl will work too, though you lose a bit of leeway by not having Extra Plating.

Pet 3: Your leveler. It'll be taking a fair amount of Aquatic damage via AoE, so try and put in something that's at least in the teens and avoid Elementals.

Start with Pet 1, and begin with Adrenaline Rush. Next, hit Marley with your Flying attack before he can dive, then Lift-off to avoid his one-two punch. Spam your Flying attack to finish him.

When Tiptoe comes out, just spam your Flying attack and use Lift-off on cooldown; you no longer need to save it for anything specific.

When the Spirit comes out, switch to your leveler, then switch again to your Minfernal. Use Crush/other spammable attack once, then Meteor/Deflection/Lift-off, avoiding his one-two punch. Once the attack's done, use Extra Plating if possible, then spam Crush/other attack of choice. You won't be able to avoid the next Whirlpool, but with the Magic type and Extra Plating, even that will do approximately squat to Minfernal, and the other options should have little trouble surviving it either. If your RNG is bad enough that you have to deal with a second Geyser, your Meteor should be up again in time to avoid it.

Comment by zouave7

Hmmmm... As of tonight I cannot battle the Flowing or Burning Spirits...

I haven't turned in "Pandaren Spirit Tamer" yet and I had been using spirit battling to level some pets...

Any advice?

Comment by Elgatodefuego

Here's the routine I use. Personally, I have horrible RNG so if the Idol dies before the Elemental I tend to reset the fight.

Fight 1 - Marley - Totally predictable - He will cast Whirlpool, Dive, Pump, Whirlpool, Pump R1: Start the fight with your leveling pet, ideally cast something that increases damage or will protect themselves in the back line the first round, Marley will cast whirlpool, swap to gryphonR2: Lift Off, Marley will DiveR3: Peck, Marley will cast PumpR4: Peck, Marley will cast whirlpool and die, Gryphon is still at 100%, swap in Anubisath

Fight 2 - Tiptoe - Water Jet, Healing Wave, Tidal WaveR1: Cast sandstorm, which is strong against Tiptoe and will reduce the damage your backline pets take, crush repeatedly and sandstorm when off cool down until Tiptoe is dead.

Fight 3 - Water Spirit - Geyser, Whirlpool, Tidal WaveHe starts off throwing down Geyser and then Whirlpool. Geyser has a 3 round wait time while whirlpool has 2 - making them go off simultaneously and devastating any pet that does not have damage mitigation. At this point you are pretty golden - your gryphon should be about 75% after tidal waves, Anubisath about 40% and your lowbie hopefully is hanging in there. Crush until the water combo is at 1 round then use deflection. Crush repeatedly until the Idol dies or the Spirit does. If the idol goes down, bring in Gryphon to mop up with Peck.

Hope this helps people - Although it seems like RNG can always manage to mess up a good thing, I have not failed to win and rake in 5k xp for my lowbies for the past three weeks.

Edited to reflect best strat of the two initially listed (consistent wins with little/no RNG issues)

Comment by Jimbrooks

Just nuked poor Flowing Pandaren Spirit with 1 Anubisath Idol. (you could probably get away with boosting a low lvl by using it first then swapping after attacking once to use Sandstorm and go from there)he will begin with the fish

Turn 1 - crushTurn 2 - sandstormTurn 3 - crushTurn 4 - deflection (both geyser and whirlpool should go off on this round, and you will take no dmg :D)Turn 5 until sandstorm is off cd - crush

rinse and repeat. always keep sandstorm up to mitigate a lot of dmg UNLESS there is a bomblike ability about to pop under you, in which case use Deflection

pretty much exactly the same strategy on all his pets. It's pretty obvious when he is about to hit you hard

The Ashwing moth over killed the 2 aquatic pets in 2 shots not even, also had the Nether Faerie Dragon as second option in case the moth dies. For the Elemental pet, the mirror strider kills it no problem.

Yellow Moth killed the first pet ("Marley" the Aquatic), and halfway killed the second pet ("Tiptoe" the Aquatic), then died.Amber Moth finished off Tiptoe.Mojo killed the third pet ("Pandaren Water Spirit" the Elemental).

Comment by Theo101

I've been able to easily beat this team and quickly level up alts using the below lineup:

When doing the fight:Turn 1: I used my Petrel's Cyclone to deal damage to the back 2 pets to make them go down fasterTurn 2: I used Slicing Wind, which was strong against Marley (Aquatic pet)Turn 3: I used Lift Off to avoid Marley's WhirlpoolTurn 4/5: I used Slicing Wind until Marley was down. I continued to use Slicing Wind until the 2nd Aquatic pet went down.I got lucky this round, so I still had my petrel at 1/2 health, so I was able to get the Flowing Pandaren Spirit down to about 300 health using Slicing Wind and Liftoff whenever Geyser and Whirlpool were about to hit.I think used the pet I was leveling up to deal the final blows to the spirit.

If the fight wasn't as lucky, then it would be wise to pull your leveling pet back after 1 turn (just so they get some exp) and put Chuck out!Chuck would then be able to easily take down the spirit using Rip+Blood in the Water, and Surge if needed

NOTE: Your leveling pet must be strong enough to survive the damage from Tiptoe and the Spirit's Tidal Wave!

Enjoy! :) and Happy Hunting!

Comment by Zolgara

For this fight it was pretty easy i started off with a level 25 rare Onyxian Whelpling, Dragonkin mainly just using and when the time comes for the dots to hit my pet i used to avoid damage and when needed which was only once i then used my level 14 to finish off the last 100 or so hp was no need for a second high level pet really

Comment by BroBeforeFoe

vs Marley- Attack with your Carry pet > switch to Anubisath Idol- Deflection > Sandstorm- From here on, cast Deflection when there is 1-turn left on your Whirlpool debuff or when Marley has dived, Sandstorm when off cooldown, Crush as a filler

vs Pandaren Water Spirit(- If your Anubisath Idol is still alive at this point, cast Crush until it dies > switch to Emerald Proto-Whelp)- Proto-Strike when there is 1-turn left on Whirlpool and Geyser- Emerald Bite all the way

Comment by clothsucks

Moths. That is all I have to say.

Comment by MajinUltima

For anyone who did An Awfully Big Adventure and got Trunks, it can be even more rewarding having a lv23 Trunks 1v3 this trainer. Like Anubisath, Ethereal goes a long way to blocking the big hits, its Magic typing makes Trunks inherantly resistant to the Aquatic damage, and it hits much harder than Anubisath does. (You don't have Sandstorm to reduce Tidal Wave damage on the backline, but your pets really should be lv11 or so just from Aki the Chosen.)

So feel free to do your victory lap on Trunks against this tamer! Or bring out your imaginary friend to handle this fight in Anubisath's stead when levelling up something else!

Comment by taerie

This fight is absurdly easy for the An Awfully Big Adventure achievement. I farm this guy every day for the pandaren water spirit using only one pet and the fight is always the same. Always. There's not even an 'oh crap' moment where my pet dies and I have to improvise. A little RNG would be welcome to mitigate the tedium.

All you need:1 Lvl 25 Rare Wildhammer Gryphon Hatchling with Peck and Lift-Off

VS MarleyRound 1 - PeckRound 2 - PeckRound 3 - Lift-OffWhen you come down from lift-off, if any of your attacks managed to crit, Marley will be dead. If he isn't finish him off with a Peck.

VS Tiptoe (Your Gryphon will still be at 100% health when he enters)Peck. That's all- nothing fancy. Just keep pecking until he's dead. Tiptoe usually just Aoes your team; unless you've got a low level pet in the back line no one will die. Even if Tiptoe decides to hammer your gryphon (or should I say wildhammer) he'll still live and it won't affect the strategy in any way.EDIT: As it turns out my gryphon's breed is an h/h and can take the hits. If yours is not just lift-off when it's off cooldown and keep on going.

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Comment by Garabel

elekk plushie + amber moth + arcane eyeuse cocon strike and moth dust as much as possible and swap to elek plushie to absorbe damageagainst pandaren water sprit arcane eye will be excelent choice as you take low damageuse eye blast and interrupting gaze to be one step forward and interrupt it's turnbetween cooldowns focused beam will gain in strength. tough you get low damage and interrupt sprit you may lose battle if it scores some critical hits

Comment by sniperintainting

This fight is solo-able with a Jade Owl PB build 1/1/1-Start with Adrenaline Rush, then Slicing Wind, and follow by Lift-Off, finish the pet with a couple of SW attacks-The second pet comes down with SW only-Start the Pandaren Water Spirit with two SW, then AR and follow with LO, finish with SW

you can insert your leveling pets at the first two rounds against the PWS.

Explanation:Start a battle with a Faerie(A). Use Cyclone - Evanescence then keep on using Slicing Wind till 1st enemy dies.(! - At 2nd enemy if water bomb round remaining shows 1 (not 2) then Faerie(A) stays for 2nd enemy takes water bomb damage then swap to level up pet.)After swapping to level up pet then right away swap back to Faerie(B). Use Life Exchange then keep on using Moonfire or Arcane Blast till 2nd enemy dies.Faerie(B) stays with 3rd enemy then use Moonfire - (Life Exchange if enemy life is larger than Faerie(B)) or Arcane Blast - Arcane Blast.

To understand how the pet type and #Battle Sequence work then please go to my main post |Pandaren Spirit Tamers|.

Comment by ArtemisSnuff

My Wildhammer Gryphon Hatching soloed all 3 of these water pets with Peck, Slicing Wind and Lift Off. I didn't even bother using Slicing Wind either, just Peck and then Lift off when the whirlpoools and such were about to hit. My pet didn't even get down to 50% health for this one.

By FAR the easiest that I've done for the Spirit Tamers

Comment by Synariel

Sick and tired of the Anubisath in every leveling strat? Me too! If you also really like the Teroclaw Hatchling, like I do, then this is the 2-pet strat for you!

Teroclaw Hatchling--2,2,1 (but you won't be using the third ability. DO NOT take and use Nature's Ward.)Any snail--2,1,1Leveling pet--Must be level 10 or above non-Elemental